Loyalists and Community in North America

by Timothy M. Barnes, Robert M Calhoon

Overview

This book is the first collection of Loyalist scholarship to span the 13 independent states and the Florida and Canadian provinces that remained loyal to the Crown in the American Revolution. The Loyalists disrupted the colonial communities in which they lived in ways that helped define the Revolution. Loyalist garrison towns became a pathological environment of violence and suspicion, which brought out the worst in patriot, British, and Loyalist behavior. In Canada, Loyalist exiles tried to create model Anglo-American communities, but in the end had to jettison Loyalist ideology to claim a new British North American identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313289477
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/23/1994
Series:	Contributions in American History , #15
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

ROBERT M. CALHOON is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

TIMOTHY M. BARNES is Associate Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

GEORGE A. RAWLYK is Professor of History at Queen's University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Loyalists and Patriot Communities
"King Mob" and the Rule of Law: Revolutionary Justice and the Suppression of Loyalism in Connecticut, 1774-1783 by David H. Villers
Connecticut's Sandemanians: Loyalism as a Religious Test by Jean F. Hankins
The Maintenance of Revolutionary Consensus: Treatment of Tories in Southwestern Virginia, 1775-1783 by Albert H. Tillson, Jr.
"Little Bermuda": Loyalism on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, 1775-1783 by Rebecca Starr
The Massachusetts Loyalists and the Problem of Amnesty, 1775-1790 by David E. Maas
Patriots, Loyalists, and Conflict Resolution in New York, 1783-1787 by Joseph S. Tiedemann
Garrison Town Communities
The Artisan Loyalists of Charleston, South Carolina by Kathryn Roe Coker
Jonathan Odell and Philip Freneau: Poetry and Politics in the Garrison Town of New York City by Cynthia D. Edelberg
Allegiance without Community: East Florida as the Symbol of a Loyalist Contract in the South by Carole Watterson Troxler
Loyalist West Florida: An Ambiguous Community by Robin F.A. Fabel
David Fanning's Militia: A Roving Partisan Community by Lindley S. Butler
Canadian Loyalism
The Loyalist Community in New Brunswick by Ann Gorman Condon
Loyalists and Community: The Eastern Ontario Loyalist Women by Janice Potter-MacKinnon
Creating a British-American Political Community in Upper Canada by Jane Errington and G.A. Rawlyk
The Nova Scotia Loyalists: A Traumatic Community by Neil MacKinnon